Where does “glob” come from?

glob (Polish) comes from French globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, from Latin globus, from Proto-Indo-European gel- — to be cold, to freeze.

glob (Polish): globe, planet

Definitions

  1. globe, planet

Ancestry of “glob”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchglobeglobe
2Middle Frenchgloberoll; globe
3Old Frenchglobe
4Latinglobusany round object; a sphere; a globe; a glob,...
5Proto-Indo-Europeangel-to be cold, to freeze
Every word from Proto-Indo-European gel-